Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy
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- Natalia Letki, Dawid Walentek (UGent) , Peter Thisted Dinesen and Ulf Liebe
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- Abstract
- Europe remains a destination of an ongoing influx of asylum seekers. The attempts to build an EU-wide political consensus around refugee policy have so far failed. This article provides a perspective on EU citizens' preferred policy towards refugees and asylum seekers at both the EU and domestic levels. A hidden policy consensus is identified in which European citizens across all social and ideological backgrounds prefer refugees to have the right to work but their freedom of movement to be restricted while their application for asylum is being processed. At the same time, the mode of refugee allocation between countries, which has been prominent in political debates across Europe, is relatively unimportant to respondents, as they focus on the domestic level rather than EU-level policy. The widespread consensus on support for refugees' participation in the labour market may unite EU citizens around cautious hospitality by deemphasising allocation principles, and stressing country-level solutions.
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- Refugees, policy, European Union, survey experiment
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01KJDDNP6V4ZD8JYAKZEY8554A
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- Letki, Natalia, et al. “Not the Mode of Allocation but Refugees’ Right to Work Drives European Citizens’ Preferences on Refugee Policy.” WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS, vol. 47, no. 4, 2024, pp. 867–92, doi:10.1080/01402382.2023.2214878.
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- Letki, N., Walentek, D., Dinesen, P. T., & Liebe, U. (2024). Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy. WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS, 47(4), 867–892. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2023.2214878
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- Letki, Natalia, Dawid Walentek, Peter Thisted Dinesen, and Ulf Liebe. 2024. “Not the Mode of Allocation but Refugees’ Right to Work Drives European Citizens’ Preferences on Refugee Policy.” WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS 47 (4): 867–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2023.2214878.
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- Letki, Natalia, Dawid Walentek, Peter Thisted Dinesen, and Ulf Liebe. 2024. “Not the Mode of Allocation but Refugees’ Right to Work Drives European Citizens’ Preferences on Refugee Policy.” WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS 47 (4): 867–892. doi:10.1080/01402382.2023.2214878.
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- 1.Letki N, Walentek D, Dinesen PT, Liebe U. Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy. WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS. 2024;47(4):867–92.
- IEEE
- [1]N. Letki, D. Walentek, P. T. Dinesen, and U. Liebe, “Not the mode of allocation but refugees’ right to work drives European citizens’ preferences on refugee policy,” WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 867–892, 2024.
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